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Usage examples of salient.

British troops began to nibble at the point of the salient on the Ancre which had been created by the battle of the Somme.

Then on past the bend of the Ancre the British and the German positions continued to the Gommecourt salient.

The past lived in her memory as a bright, changeful dream, varying from one pleasure to another, with an ever-shifting background of fair, foreign towns and cities, Kursaals, palaces, salons, gardens, mountains, and lakes, and quiet green nooks of country--all, as it seemed to her, with the power of generalization that seizes on the most salient points, and takes them as types of the whole, shining in sunlight that never clouded, under clear blue skies that never darkened.

Nearing the street in front of the Club Miche, The Shadow picked out salient features.

The last salient point in which the systems of these creatures differed from ours was in what one might have thought a very trivial particular.

Clarendon and his new home near old Goat Hill, sketches of his career and manifold honours, and popular accounts of his salient scientific discoveries were all presented in the principal California dailies, till the public soon felt a sort of reflected pride in the man whose studies of pyemia in India, of the pest in China, and of every sort of kindred disorder elsewhere would soon enrich the world of medicine with an antitoxin of revolutionary importance - a basic antitoxin combating the whole febrile principle at its very source, and ensuring the ultimate conquest and extirpation of fever in all its diverse forms.

Mudge stood next to them, making salient points as Talea chased the apologetic Jon-Tom several times around their tree home.

The programmer never considered the possibility that the relay might fail to close nor was he well informed about the salient electrical characteristics of decaying Blatta Orientalis.

The creation of a general Government, with its three separate and measurably independent departments, happily concluded, with the delegated powers of each distinctly enumerated, the salient question as to the basis of representation in the Congress at once pressed for determination.

Into line in Ypres Salient on high ground between Menin and Zonnebeke Roads -- came under XXII Corps.

For they belong to that weird netherworld of unbiological beings, salient members of which are the chimera, the unicorn, the sphinx, the werewolf, and the hound of the hedges and the sea serpent.

The younger here of our ethereal band And hierarchy of Intelligences, That this thwart Parliament whose moods we watch-- So insular, empiric, un-ideal-- May figure forth in sharp and salient lines To retrospective eyes of afterdays, And print its legend large on History.

All of which brings us back to the way the media handled the story about the shootout at the Appalachian School of Law in Grundy, Virginia, and what seems to be the only plausible reason so much of the media left out the salient fact that the students who finally subdued the gunman also had guns.

He sought, above all, any crosscurrents he could detect, hidden, salient, or otherwise.

Instead, their available forces were to concentrate on one smashing blow against the Kursk salient, a segment of the front line that ballooned westward into the German mid-section.